our politicians in congress and the white house are bipartisan. we should be demanding that they are nonpartisan. asking the parties to work together is useless. they are committed to opposition and instead we should abandon partisanship and work towards pragmatic, not ideological ends. and this helps us keep our decision based solely on the re-election and new kwds coming in. why is the congress different? congress has to make decisions based on getting re-elected. hence, it's congress that is broken. please keep the conversation going. facebook.com/carolcnn. thanks, as always, for your comments. >> thanks, carol. cnn "newsroom" continues with randi kaye. >> hi, i'm randi kaye. it's 1:00. let's get straight to the news. manufacturing news today, education on friday. president obama is building on this economy built to last

speech and is speaking at a plant in iowa that makes conveyor belts and then he will go to a facility in vegas, the university of michigan ann arbor. four of those states are must wins. arizona is on the president's wish list. only one state matters for the gop primary race. rick santorum with a state rally. newt gingrich spoke at a forum called univision. likely florida voters monday and tuesday and after the republican debate, romney is on top by seven points but 6% say that they are unsure. santorum and ron paul are far behind fighting it out to third. egyptians are marking the first anniversary of the start of the historic uprising at a scene like this in cairo's tahrir square seem commonplace?

they fear there is little else to show for their efforts. mubarak is on trial for his life and democratic civilian government is far from complete. in a daring helicopter move, the navy s.e.a.l.s rescued two aide workers. they fought their way into the somali compound and some of them were part of the navy s.e.a.l. team that captured osama bin laden last year. more on this story and a live report just minutes from now. gabrielle giffords resigned from congress today, honored with a standing ovation. they recognized giffords for all that she has done during her tenure, with her friend debbie

wasserman schultz read the speech. >> her public service has meant a great deal to her and that this is only a pause in that public service and that she will return one day. >> also today, the house unanimously passed the final bill to penalize drug dealers who try to bring weapons across the border. giffords was shot in the head just over a year ago. powerful storms across texas last night. austin received seven inches of rain. this is from ktvt. flash flood warnings are in effect for an santonio, austin, houston, and dallas. strong winds brought down power lines leaving thousands of people in the dark.

a tornado watch is in effect for the south central and southeast texas. no reports of injuries so far. apple stock is going through the roof. up 7% in early trading after blowout quarterly results. the tech company sold record numbers of ipods to generate $4.3 million. that's up 73% from a year ago. that's one the biggest quarters for any u.s. company. if you shop for airfares today, it may seem like prices shot up overnight. but for one that's not the case. a new rule is making it mandatory for airlines to show the total cost of a ticket when advertising the price, that includes any taxes and special fees. this means what you see is what you will get with no hidden fees attached. the top navy s.e.a.l. team is at it again. how they rescued two aide workers in somalia, next.

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to tell you about in the houston area. there is a tornado warning. chad, what do you know? >> the sirens have been going off in harris county for a while now. that's not what i'm worried about. this is pearland and it's sliding here. this is the part right there that i'm concerned about. it will slide over towards laport and then baytown. it's significant enough that i wanted to at least alert you as well. there will be other storms that rotate today. if you hear the sirens going or if you hear your county, make sure you get away from the windows, get into the lowest level of the house and keep the kids and pets inside. >> all right, chad. thank you very much. president obama talked about the military but the latest triumph of the u.s. forces that he alluded to and you have to listen carefully. >> good job tonight. good job tonight. >> if you caught that atta boy

at the state of the union speech and were wondering what that was about, two aide workers were kidnapped in october. jessica buchanan and her colleague were unhurt but nine somalia kidnappers were killed. david mckenzie is joining me now on assignment in jerusalem to fill in some of the blanks for us. the pentagon says that these hostage holders were kidnappers, not terrorists. is this who we call pirates when they attack the boats? >> it could be, randi. what we do know is that they were after money, not after any kind of political goal and so it's safe to say they weren't islamic terrorists, they are al kw kwid da groups and they weren't

terrorists in a way, they were just criminals, kidnappers. and certainly that's what we're both hearing on the ground in somalia and also what the pentagon is telling us, that these are people who wanted cash and in some ways it made them easier to deal with both by the military and also by people trying to push it diplomatically before that. randi? >> from what we understand, this danish group was trying to protect somalias from la land mines. how much of a problem is it there? >> reporter: well, i've been there a numb fr number of times in somalia and what you have is you're in a vehicle and the vehicle behind you, you often have militants of some description protecting you but the cars aren't armored and your biggest risk is getting sold out by someone. what we believe happened in this case is the two workers are doing good work for the people of somalia had been tipped off

the kidnappers and said, you can come get them. the gunman came and really there's nothing that protection can do in that instance because you're not in a conventional war situation. randi? >> this was an incredible operation. certainly pretty impressive. the u.s. has a military base nearby, right? >> reporter: well, that's right. in jabuti. it's northwest of the northern part of somalia. it's a navy camp, in fact. there's no surprise that they placed it there. it's the major installation of the u.s. military in africa and right near where they want to look into in terms of intelligence and groups linked with al qaeda and we believe it proved useful in terms of mounting an operation into the central part of somalia, getting those people back, the pentagon saying that both of the hostages

are well. they are unharmed and they are recuperating. they have been looked at by u.s. medical personnel. but only major base in that north, northern region of africa is bahrain where the fifth fleet comes out and deals very much with the piracy at sea that we've talked about so much in the past few years. it's believed that because they are doing so well, randi, at stopping pirates on the sea, they might be pushing to the land. >> david mckenzie, thank you very much for your reporting there. 24 unarmed men, women, and children shot dead. the man behind the crime? a u.s. marine who won't serve any jail time. it's being called military justice but some question was there justice at all?

shoot first, ask questions later. that's what happened to 24 civilians and seven children, three women, and an elderly man in a wheelchair. what happened yesterday and what is happening is they are being enraged all over again. what happened is that squad leader who gave the command to shoot first, ask questions later, learned his fate for his role in the attack and some say it amounts to a slap on the wrist. he originally faced 152 years in prison. on nine counts of involuntary manslaughter. two counts of dangerous weapon and three counts of dereliction of duty. he got a reduction in rarvnk, a

pay cut, and no jail time. joining us to talk about the case is gary solis. nice to have you on the program. >> gone awry is not the right word. a failed prosecution. >> if you look at the case as a whole, there were eight defendants, one was acquitted. you say actually that this case should be an example in law school of how not to prosecute a case. what do you mean by that? >> i'm afraid so. there's enough blame to go around starting at the very top. senior leaders in the marine corps waited before they brought charges. in the meantime, memories are fading and then the senior lawyers at the command at camp pendleton didn't press for their support and prosecutors were

forced for a trial date. you go six years without it being unheard of. there's some blame on the prosecutors themselves. >> he obviously struck this plea deal. does that work the same way if it does in the civilian court? >> sure. they get together and decide what charges can be supported in the pretile and what sentence is appropriate. they make a deal and it's signed by the senior general who convenes the court. it goes before the judge, the judge then sentences to what he the judge feels is an appropriate sentence and then, only then, can he look at the pretrial agreement to see what the deal was there and which ever is the lesser, the pretrial sentence or the lesser. >> what kind of message do you think this sends the international community about our troops?

does it show that they don't old the troops accountable? >> obviously not. it's too bad because i think we have an excellent military justice system. in this case, it was so convoluted, it occurred so far away from the place of the trial, no forensic evidence, noncooperative iraqi witnesses and a prosecution that failed to get the case to trial in time that it just sends a terrible message about american militant commitment to justice. >> the prosecution argued that the marines were out for revenge. as a prosecutor, do you believe the same thing? >> well, it's hard to say. no case is too hard for the lawyer that doesn't have to try it. i wasn't in the courtroom and didn't hear the evidence but certainly the reports that i've read would tend to support that. >> iraqi officials certainly outraged. they released a statement yesterday. we have it for you. it says, i can't believe that the court decided to drop all the charges against one charge which is negligent, dereliction of duty which is a joke because

according to iraqi law, all those soldiers should be executed. this was tried in a military court. was there some kind of an agenda here, do you think? >> no, i really don't think there is any agenda, other than a sincere desire on the part of the defense department, united states marine corps to try this case and arrive at a just result. but so many instances you go to court seeking justice and instead you meet the law. and there was a combination of factors and mistakes that built upon each other and that's not an excuse. the bottom line is, we failed to reach a just conclusion to this case. we'll never know what really happened there. no case has ever gone to verdict and that just represents a failure. that should be unacceptable in military justice. >> gary solis, thanks so much for your time. millions of people live with alzheimer's. there is a new fight on the horizon. more right after the break.

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thing that needs to be done for alzheimer's is to commit resources at a significant level. other diseases have made such great progress. because our federal government has in fact committed those resources. that's not true for alzheimer's. we lag behind in that resource commitment and that alone can make a huge difference but we do need a comprehensive plan that will cover what people need today as well as their caregivers before we get to the point of effectively treating the disease. >> i'm glad you brought up the caregivers because i want you to help us understand the need for this, when it comes to families, to the caregivers, what's the reality? >> my mom had the disease. i've seen this reality up close. 15 million caregivers today. they are experiencing this reality each and every day. it can sap their strength. in fact, they can themselves

predecease the person who has the disease and this could be due to the stress. the effects on the family are so great in alzheimer's. there's really nothing else like it. no other chronic disease has this level of reach and impact and the economic effect. more than a trillion dollars a year in 38 years will be the cost to our country for caring with people with alzheimer's if we don't change the disease. >> you said that alzheimer's kills more people than prostate cancer combined. you mentioned the economic cause. they are really astonishing. where does this go? what if things don't change? >> well, the numbers are staggering and we're set to see growth in the numbers as a result of the aging of the population. i should say, alzheimer's is not normal aging but age is the biggest risk factor. as our population ages, as the

boomers age, we're going to see 10 billion boomers have the disease if we don't change the course. we're going to see rise in the numbers that will basically triple the number of people who have it and the number of people who are caregivers. >> when you talk about this plan, there is a deadline. the government has issued a deadline of 2025. do you think that's realistic? >> well, i have to credit the government administration with setting an aggressive goal that has never been set before. the science community certainly believes that this is an aggressive goal. i have to say that people who have the disease today, they worry that it's not aggressive enough but i have to credit the federal government for taking the step of setting a time when we would have prevention and effective treatment of alzheimer's. it's a huge step forward. >> harry johns, we know it's an important issue which is why we gave it some sometime. for much more, visit alz.org. nancy pelosi laughs at the thought of newt gingrich as president. >> that will never happen. >> why? >> he's not going to be

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call this toll-free number now. before the break i asked you who was the first president to have his state of the union address broadcast over the internet? the answer is bill clinton in 1997. big congrats to britney b. for tweeting me the right answer first. if you're wondering, the first broadcast over the radio was truman. newt gingrich appeared to be on a roll going into florida's vote next week but seems to have hit a pothole and it's "fair game" today. take a look at this. mitt romney is being favored by 41% of likely primary voters. gingrich is second with 34%. rick santorum, ron paul trail with single digits. it was taken monday and tuesday,

half before and half after. will, what do you make of this new poll? is it a setback for newt gingrich? >> as much as i'd like nothing more than to dismiss the numbers, they have been pretty indicative. i would say this is a red flag for gingrich and that poll was taken half before and half after that debate. we know how important the debates have been. so maybe romney landed some punches on monday night. maybe he's scoring a few points. keep it up. >> roland, what do you think? >> no, this is not a red flag. at some point i think people are going to have to understand that and what happens in new hampshire is going to repeat itself in south carolina. a whole different metric is

going on here. florida, much larger state. different kind of appeal when you talk about southern part of the state. >> if you look at the polls, obviously there's a lot that come out every day. another poll shows gingrich in a virtual tie with mitt romney and seems as though the white house and listen to the president last night. they don't know what they are talking about. >> so obama doesn't mention romney by name. do you think that they are underestimating gingrich in this case as well? >> i do. listen, i think some of the

biggest polls have been a tim tebow metaphor. but he kept winning. this is gingrich. nothing adds up. he's not anti-establishment. that cannot be newt gingrich. he's not the most electable. by no rational analysis do you land at newt gingrich. >> stop. please. >> hold on, roland. when your predictor wheels fly off, quit predicting. >> let me help you with something, texas longhorn and dallas cowboy fan. when you only won one race, you can't say he keeps winning. he did horrible in iowa, didn't win south carolina. how can we keep saying he is winning. if he wins florida and other

states, we can make that kind of comment. so he only won one state. this is what i'm talking about, the role has changed, the bottom line is here. you put the shirt money on who they think the mom nominee is going to be. they change their tactic. it's easy to attack newt gingrich. >> just so i'm clear, your argument is that newt gingrich should be underestimated? >> no, what you said is gingrich keeps winning. >> all i said, roland, is don't underestimate him. >> a democrat certainly confident that gingrich will not be the nominee, listen to this. >> he's not going to be president of the united states.

that's not going to happen. let me just make my prediction and stand by it. it's not going to happen. why are you so sure? >> republicans if they choose to nominate him, that's there prerogative. >> sounds awfully mysterious, doesn't it? >> he just misconstrued my entire last answer where i said don't unerestimate the man who won a stay. i'm going to give roll land martin credit and all nancy pelosi is saying, she's in not going to be the nominee. >> look, randi, we need 144 delegates to win the nomination. look, people are saying that if one candidate doesn't get those delegates, trust me, the republican party knows that if newt gingrich is their nominee, they are going to go down faster

and by the ship captain italian guy, he's absolute crip toe night to winning. because, again, he's going to say something crazy and he can keep yelling and screaming and attacking the media but trust me, ain't going to be the nominee. >> randi, i just want to say if nancy pelosi had a deep dark secret that she could reveal about newt gingrich that would deny him the nomination, let me assure you, she would never let it out. she wants him to be the nominee. >> of course she does. >> gingrich has been talking to the media. he did respond to the claims by nancy pelosi. earlier today on the "today" show. listen to this. >> is there anything that nancy pelosi knows that would stop you from president.

>> she understands the reality and i have no idea what is in nancy pelosi's head. >> roll laand, what do you make that response? >> i wonder what kind of fantasies newt likes to think about. trust me, she's one of the smartest politicians regardless of washington d.c. newt, you know very well, nancy pelosi knows you're not going to be the nominee. >> will, ten seconds and then we've got to go. >> newt should have known more about fantasy and and if we want to play some music. >> roland martin, we'll have to have you back. thursday night, just days before the florida primary, they team up to host our next presidential debate in

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it can be an exhilarating moment for the guests at the union address. it happened last year to robert and gary allen, two brothers who run a business and they were hit hard and solar panels into metal roofing shingles as robert allen put it, and what went through your mind as president obama told the world about your work

in producing clean energy? >> well, that's a question that a lot of people have asked me over the course of the last year and i thought you might ask it today. but as i was sitting there watching the state of the union last night, i was thinking about the same thing, what was going through my mind when i was there? and i have to tell you and everyone who wants to hear this, it really felt like a reward. we've worked really hard for a long time. we've done things and we were given an opportunity to steward a gift, the solar shingle, and we have done, i think, a fairly good job of that and so when president obama called last year, asked him to set with his

wife, it felt like a reward and i guess that's the best way that i know how to describe it. >> what impact did that have on your company and your business? >> well, everyone seems to take my calls these days. and so it's helped us grow, it's helped us get to places that would have otherwise taken much longer to get to when you're literally dare i say endorse, i don't know if that's the right word, but it felt like it, by the president of the united states and people listen and we do have a really good product and it's starting to move. it's brand new to the market. >> yeah. >> the people that have gotten it so far, in fact, i have been asked to mention them but i know there's probably not enough time

for that. but no one in particular said, tell them that my system is producing my system and she's out in colorado. >> well, that's great. you're on to a good thing here and recognition from the president never hurts. thank you so much, robert allen. >> i have one more thing i'd like to say. >> okay. >> hello to my daughter's third grade class in appleton elementary school. all right. last night at president's state of the union address talked about the immigration reform but every attempt in the past has come up short. what makes this year difference? we'll ask his adviser next. so stick around. but, first, our political junkie question. which president revived the

tradition and delivered the state of the union to a joint session of congress in person? if you know the answer, tweet me @randikayecnn. if you're right, i'll give you a shout out.

before the break i asked which president revived washington's tradition and delivered the state of the union as an address to joint session of congress in person. the answer, wood row wilson in 1913. until then, every president from jefferson to taft sense their state of the unions to congress in a letter. congratulations to alex for tweeting me the right answer first. you might have missed a bit

of history being made in washington. president obama tapped cecilia munoz to be his adviser on immigration reform. it's certainly a hot topic in this election. there's plenty of issues as well. cecilia, what do you say to critics of the white house's immigration policy, specifically of deportations, specifically that they have increased under president obama. >> they have actually increased but for the first time there is a strategy for law enforcement principles to make sure people convicted of the crimes and the composition under which will change significantly and what this president is trying to do is use the tools that he has under a very badly broken law to make sure we're administering it

widely and well. what you heard him say last night is that we need to reform the immigration as part of his blueprint to make sure that we are building this america that is built to last that he talked about last night. >> to denounce the program which allows federal agents immigrants using information coming from local law enforcement. here's what they said. we're sick of these stories and the criminalization of immigrants, and cecelia munoz should know this. they shouldn't be surprised when the community starts fighting back to combat the lies. what is your response to that? >> i don't spend a lot of time on the personal attacks. what i do spend time on is trying to improve the system, as well as what the president said last night as part of his

agenda. we're doing work not just on immigration reform, but on manufacturing, on job training. these are all critical areas that will be a part of my work in this administration, and it will be an honor to be a part of it. >> immigration reform certainly is not easy. there have been many failed attempts in the last decade or so, but the president last night spoke about resurrecting the dream act, urging congress to do so. let's listen. >> we should be working on comprehensive immigration reform right now. [ applause ] >> but politics keeps congress from acting on a comprehensive plan. let's at least work on responsible young people who want to staff our labs, start new business. >> with so much political gridlock in washington and such

divided political time, how do you see any such legislation passing? >> well, i'd like to think about the way the president closed his speech last night. he really called on the congress and on his administration to follow the example of our men and women in uniform who aren't thinking about idealogy and politics when they are joined together on a mission. in immigration reform, like the education work we're doing, like the work we're doing on manufacturing that the president was announcing today in cedar rapids, all these things are things that should be passed in bipartisan support, they're all things we should be working on tomorrow, and you heard the president wants to get the job done because that's what he believes the senate is here to do. >> what do you think immigration reform should look like? >> the president has produced a blueprint. he's explained what he thinks comprehensive reform should look like that could do the job here.

a lot of these are bipartisan proposals on immigration, infrastructure, education. they're areas where we ought to be able to get something done now. he's expressed his vision for what that kind of reform should look like. what he needs is some partners in congress to get the job done. >> let's talk now about the latino votes. certainly latinos came out in high numbers for president obama back in 2008. certainly a crucial segment for the president. he certainly needs them again. let's look at some recent polling by cnn on this. if you take a look, you can see the hispanics still favor the democrats. obama leads with the hispanics. what is being done to ensure that they do? >> one of the things i'm proud of in my work in the administration over the last three years is that we really focus on policy accomplishment for the american people, and that includes latinos in the united states. so the work we've done on

education, the work we've done on advancing the economy and creating jobs, the work we've done in making sure people have access to health care, that parents can stay in their country, and that's what the president's marching orders are for their team. the job here is really about making sure we're getting the job done for american people and not thinking so much about politics. there will be time for a campaign when the other side has figured out who their nominees will be. our job right now is moving forward for the american people. >> let me ask you just for fun, actually, this might be your toughest question of all. you're a public figure, you're now one of the key faces at the white house. a lot of people will be wondering who you are, so tell us one fun fact about you that we might not know. >> i am the daughter of bolivian immigrants. i'm from detroit, i'm from an

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making news at street level in connecticut. the easthaven mayor has issued an apology for his comments about latinos. >> what are you doing for those latino communities today? >> i might have tacos when i go home. i'm not quite sure yet. >> unreal. this came after four police officers were arrested for allegedly miss treating latinos. prosecutors said they apparently threatened and they're under arrest. they covered up evidence by falsifying reports and blocking an investigation. mourners gathered to say goodbye to former head coach joe paterno. his funeral is today, followed by a public mourning service tomorrow. he was a penn state coach for 45 years. he died at the age of 85. a ballot question could change the way teachers are provided. they say it's unconstitutional and confusing, and it filed a

lawsuit with the state supreme court. no word yet if the court will take up that suit. someone in manhattan, i'm afraid, needs to learn how to spell. the mistake is even clear from space. take a look, s-h-c-o-o-l? really? it gets better. this is right outside a manhattan high school. the mistake went unreported for months. people, how could you miss that? the department of transportation told the new york post that the mistake was made by a utility provider when painting the streets. luckily they did a fix on tuesday. according to the arizona republic, a state lawmaker is proposing a bill that would allow public and charter high schools to offer an elective course on the bible.

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today. he was not at all happy about the president's call last night for higher taxes on millionaires. >> if he actually meant what he said, it would be a disaster in the first order. he had a very public political promise that we ought to make sure that everybody who earns a million dollars pays 30% in taxes. it sounds good on the surface and it's perfect left-wing democratic flubbs ery. >> federal interest rates are low, and it looks like it will continue through 2014. a private funeral this afternoon for legendary penn state football coach joe paterno. the service for family members comes after thousands stood in line for hours yesterday and

also earlier today. they just filed past his casket. a public service will be held tomorrow in a 16,000-seat arena on campus. the 85-year-old paterno died sunday, just two months after being forced to comment on the sex abuses against jerry sandusky, a former coach. the captain's wife says her husband is not the monster he's being portrayed as. she says her husband is a maestro who knows how to do his job and he's simply been a scapegoat here. a 16th body has been found. still 17 are missing. not a lot of dry eyes in the room there this morning.

very emotional day on capitol hill. congresswoman gabrielle giffords formally resigned from congress, and she said she gave up her seat to focus on her recovery after being shot in the head at a rally last year. they read her resignation letter on the house floor. listen to this. >> always i fought for what i thought was right, but never did i question the character of those with whom i disagreed. never did i pass an opportunity to join hands with someone just because he or she held different ideals. >> in san antonio, texas a woman got quite a scare this morning when her car got stuck in some high water. the driver didn't see any barriers, so what did she do? she drove right onto that flood zone. her car, a brand new bmw, stalled. the woman did make it out okay. her bmw? not so much. did you hear, the most

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the feds accused several police officers of racial pro filing in one city. but it's the mayor who is in hot water for making an offensive

comment when asked about the case. you're going to hear from the mayor and all the backlash. i'm brooke baldwin. the news is now. how much do tshould the ricy in taxes? ben stein told me his thoughts on this bitter fight. mystery solved. hours after this candid comment, news breaks to rescue an american hostage. details on how a secret group of navy seals pulled it off. plus a beat-down caught on camera. and one of the teenagers behind bars is there because of his own dad. i'll speak with his father live. and jurors apparently get emotional after garth brooks takes the stand. >> that's the longest time of my life.

and here we go. state of the union last night. i hope you watched it with us. now the president has hit the road, three days, five states. certainly no coincidence here. he's not going to iowa for the corn dogs, folks, not going to vegas to hit the craps table. our chief correspondent jessica yellin. she's a step ahead of the president. she's in phoenix. talk about these five states and how crucial they are in his reelection bid. >> hi, brooke. well, they are all battleground states, 48 electoral votes in total, and each has particular meaning. first there's iowa, which is the symbolic start of his success in 2008. two of the states, colorado and nevada, were crucial purple states that he won in the last time around, but he'll have to fight to keep them this time. michigan, a state where he brought that auto bailout, brought back a lot of jobs.

they expected they would be able to hold onto that one, but with a fight. here in the state of arizona, which is an interesting place, it is a red state. but the president's team is persuaded that they can win it this time around if they fight hard enough, and that's because it's got such a large latino population, and they are determined to win it by turning out the latino vote, and the president is headed here next, brooke. he's selling a message on manufacturing, but this is heavily, as you say, about electoral politics, brooke. >> and you're there ahead of him in phoenix. he just spoke in cedar rapids, iowa. raising the taxes on the wealthy is class warfare. >> right. sometimes he says call it class warfare if you want to, i don't care, other times he says it's ridiculous to call it that. the bottom line is that's a fight the president is happy to have. he is standing in line with the

majority of americans. polls show they are overwhelmingly, or a majority of americans would like to see taxes go up on the wealthy as a way to correct some of the challenges our economy is facing. first let's listen to the president and we can talk about it on the back end. here's what he said. >> i believe we should follow what we call the buffett rule. if you make more than $1 million a year, i don't mean that you've got a million dollars worth of assets, i don't mean a family that's been saving all their lives and doing well and is comfortable and finally they've got a little nest egg. if you make more than $1 million a year, you should pay a tax rate of at least 30%. [ applause ] >> if, on the other hand, you make less than $250,000 a year, which includes 98% of you, your

taxes shouldn't go up. [ applause ] >> and by the way, if we do that, and we make some smart cuts in other areas, we can get this deficit and debt under control and still be making the investments we need to grow the economy. >> now, brooke, two points here. one, this is drawing a contrast with the republicans' positions. the president's campaign wants to be able to say that they are laying out a specific vision for the future of the economy in the middle class and one where middle class americans have an opportunity to get ahead. this is the idea, he's one component of it. they were handed a gift when mitt romney came out with his tax returns, and there's a contrast he's drawing between what mitt romney paid and what

folks in his class should be paying. >> how about that for a quinky dink yesterday. i want to play some sound and what one of the challengers said about the president. >> he was speaking in fantasy land again last night. he seems so extraordinarily detached from reality. >> mitt romney uses the word fantasy land, newt gingrich using the word disaster when describing president obama and his plan. but the fighting not stopping there. both candidates speaking live during the show. we're going to take you to florida next. c'mon dad! i'm here to unleash my inner cowboy. instead i got heartburn. hold up partner. prilosec can take days to work. try alka-seltzer. it kills heartburn fast. yeehaw!

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keep in mind we are now less than a week out from the florida primary. florida, you know this. it's ground zero in the republican campaign for the presidency. this is a brand new poll. look at the top two there, putting mitt romney and newt gingrich basically in a virtual tie. 36% supporting romney, gingrich, 34. joe is in coco for us today. so much we could talk specifically about florida, but i want to talk about newt gingrich reaching out to those voters. how is that working out for him? >> well, the gingrich campaign put out a radio adhere here in florida. that radio ad put mitt romney as

an anti-republican candidate, not particularly republican. mark arubio, a senator here, has been mentioned many times as a potential vice presidential running mate for whoever turns out to be the nominee, he weighed in on this. he hasn't endorsed anyone here in florida or in south florida, but he weighed in by saying the ad by the newt gingrich campaign was inaccurate. he called it a variety of names, and the upshot was that the gingrich campaign ought to take that ad down. they eventually did, because you don't want to misrepresent mark arubio in florida. among other things, he went on to univision, which is the major spanish language television station. got a lot of grilling, a lot of very tough questions, but also sort of gave as good as he got as well. so this is all in the lead-up to the big primary here, and you have to reach out to the

spanish-speaking voters, especially the cubans down in south florida, brooke. >> i was at cape canavaral last july, the final space shuttle launch. you think florida, you think space coast, a number of jobs. a number of jobs don't exist anymore. i know newt gingrich is tapping into that as well today. >> that's right. we're expecting a speech around 3 3 3:30 eastern time or so in which newt gingrich will speak about the space program. he's been a supporter of the space program but not necessarily the way the money is spent. so what we expect him to do is to support the space program and suggest there ought to be, for example, prizes that might bring in private entry to try to spend a lot of money in order to get discoveries and breakthroughs in the field of space science. the speaker of the house

obviously very interested in what nasa does. the question, of course, is how nasa does it. >> huh. that's interesting. we'll dip into a little bit of that. you mentioned 3:30, newt gingrich speaking about space. thank you, joe. now this. >> good job tonight. good job tonight. >> did you catch that last night when you were watching? the president is giving lots of praise to pineta. good job. the navy seal rescue, we're learning who did and who did not make it out alive. that's next. [ dad ] i'm usually checking up on my kids,

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there was this moment. it was quick, but it was certainly a moment last night when president obama was walking to the podium to deliver his state of the union address, and when you see the moment in hindsight, it's actually pretty cool. here it is in case you missed

it. >> good job tonight. good job tonight. >> huh. the president, you see, he was talking to defense secretary leon panetta. what we know now is the navy elite had just rescued some people in somalia. and panetta's team 6 was a part of that rescue. here's chris lawrence with details on last night's rescue. chris? >> reporter: it was a daring nighttime raid that brought u.s. special operations forces back to somalia, the same country where years ago they suffered those infamous losses in black hawk down. but this mission was a complete success. now, these aid workers were kidnapped back in late october, but officials tell us the sense of urgency really started to heighten this month. what was contributing to that? part of it was the deteriorating

health of jessica buchanan. so on monday, president obama authorized the rescue mission, and on tuesday, the military pushed forward with it. special operations teams, which included navy seals, came to the compound there in somalia. we're told that there were nine kidnappers holding the two hostages. all nine of them were killed in the assault. we're also told that those kidnappers were armed and had explosives nearby. the team was able to get the hostages, get them on the helicopter and get them out of somalia safely. i'm chris lawrence reporting from the pentagon. >> chris, thank you so much. also developing this hour, thousands of people without power as powerful storms and flooding slam texas. i feel like we were talking about all the drought in texas not too many months ago and now you have this. the situation could get even worse. chad meyers is all over that. plus, he says it's unfair to

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take a look at this video. one, lone, stranded car. this is what happens when the ground gets pelted with record rainfall. cars stuck, washed away. chad meyers, i just want to bring you in. you can always gauge the level of the water when you see the streetlights and the stop signs. how much water did they get? >> that was six feet of water. that was a suburban right up to the roof. there was no one in that car, but overnight there were people in those cars driving through, couldn't go any farther, had to be rescued. now everybody is okay at this point in time, but this rain

came in places that need rain, but of course that would be all of texas, wouldn't it? the places to the west that could use more didn't get anything. nine or ten inches around austin, moved to the west kind of in the hill country, so lake travis could have gotten filled up. no, it was georgetown and eastward, and now this is going to move eastward and not be of a lot of use to most of texas at all. if you get six inches in 12 hours, you're not caught up because five inches of that six just ran off into the river, and that doesn't catch you up tie drought. >> is it over, the rainfall? >> from houston to beaumont all the way over to lake charles and now shreveport. a lot of this weather, especially into louisiana, will be more severe today than it was yesterday. we could see some tornadoes across parts of louisiana, the bay bayou, leading into mississippi and alabama tonight as the same type of storm that moved through

five days ago moved through again. >> think of all those people those months asking for rain and now they got too much, it looks like. >> watch what you ask for, you know? all of a sudden, it just came in like that. >> chad, thank you so much. you say the word taxes, and most people's eyes glaze over, your ears shut down as soon as the subject matter, you know, comes up. but not now. please don't glaze over. this is so important. this is huge especially now in this political climate. not with this. >> we need to change our tax code so that people like me and a lot of members of congress pay our fair share of taxes. tax reform should fall off the buffett rule. if you make more than a million dollars a year, you should not pay less than 30% in taxes. >> that was the president, of course, just last night during his state of the union speech. earlier in the day, that very day, republican presidential candidate mitt romney actually released his taxes, and we found out not only did he make $21 million last year, but a total

of over 42 millionover the course course of two years. his tax rate was over 14%, adding fuel to the fire, saying rich folks pay at the same rate as the average person. we could be adding a little fuel here or clarity by talking to ben stein. he's an economist and author. ben stein, glad to have you on. >> glad to be here. >> clearly this is news. romney is a successful guy, and under obama's proposal, which we heard again last night, he would be paying taxes at that 30% rate if the buffett rule is in effect. question to you, is the president's tax proposal fair or does it penalize the successful? >> it's totally fair and it's actually necessary. we're headed to national default. no candidate has told you from either party, but we're heading toward default. no candidate has told you we are going to have to declare a fall

on our national debt. i did just tell you that, but it's true, unless we raise taxes or lower spending. raising taxes on people who make over a million dollars a year seems fair. i don't see any rational reason why people who have that much money shouldn't pay more tax. it would be nice if they could keep it, but it would also be nice if we could flap by flapping our wings. >> ben stein, are you agreeing with the president on something? >> i agree with him on that, certainly not everything, but i've been saying all my life we can't run on these deficits forever, and the best place to get the money would be from who has lots of it, and that would be very rich people. >> i also want to talk about how the irs breaks down who pays what in taxes, because the majority of americans pay 15% or less, so the poor and the very rich, right, the folks on the opposite end of the spectrum, they get the breaks. but the folks who are paying the higher rate are those who are

the middle to upper middle range. not the wealthy, not the poor, probably a lot of people watching. the buffett rule wouldn't affect them, so what's the solution? >> i'm sorry to say the solution would be to raise taxes on everybody and we have people in the work force not paying anything. they should pay something so they have skin in the game. we are running deficits on a scale that is unheard of except for world war ii. we just can't be doing it. we have been running a low tax society living in a dream world for an awful long time now. that's got to stop. we have to live in the real world. we're not little children. we're grownups, we have to act like grownups and we have to pay more taxes if we want to spend more money. >> so these are all ideas posed by -- different ideas posed by whatever side of the political aisle you find yourself, but all

this posturing and uppontificatg in washington haven't gone far, right? are you confident there will be real tax reform, or will we have to wait until after november? >> i think we'll have to wait until doomsday. neither side is even close to facing reality in this situation. we have some very smart economists in this country who have made calculations that show we simply cannot avoid default unless we have mammoth inflation that washes away the debt but then washes away everyone's savings. i don't see congress doing that. they're just nibbling at the edges when they do anything at all. we're really headed to a difficult spot here. >> i don't like words like that, mr. stein. >> i don't like it, either. >> the president also last night calls for legislation to make it

easier for americans to refinance their homes. do you think it's a good idea, or should the government totally butt out? what's next for the housing market, do you think? >> i think the housing market is so low the next step is up for sure. it might take a while, though. i think the government should be helping people refinance. losing your home is so incredibly traumatic, so incredibly upsetting that i think whatever the government can do short of really infringing on lenders' rights is very, very important. it's just a terrible drama to lose your home. >> ben stein, thank you so much. >> thank you so much. >> nice to meet you. >> nice to meet you. police busted an alleged drug ring. the suspects? a principal and a former special ed teacher. we're going to speak live to the sheriff in this case. that's next.

if investigators are right, the school principal may turn out to be the town disgrace. john lund used to be the acting principal in a school in wisconsin as well as the high school football coach. he is on leave now. police just allegedly busted him for selling pot to teachers in his school district. also part of this sweep, lund's brother-in-law, bradley maahs, a

former special ed teacher. they sold marijuana right out of their home. >> i really liked them, but it just makes me lose respect. >> one of them was my teacher and it seemed like he never did that. i've even been out to his house before, and now i'm just completely shocked and i'm disappointed in him. >> on the phone we have the sheriff of langley county, wisconsin, bill greenling. sheriff, we're talking about a principal and a football coach. do you know at all if they were selling drugs to the students? >> no. we have no information to this point in the investigation that any alleged illegal activity occurred on any of the school grounds nor involved any of the students. >> okay. and as we show some of these men who are allegedly involved, tell me a little more about them both on the selling end and the

buying end. how many people total are involved? >> well, we are still in the process of conducting this investigation, so that investigation has not been completed. the first phase, as i have termed it, of the investigation which resulted in charges against these three individuals, i think the total -- a number of people that were named in the criminal complaint amounted to approximately 14. >> yep. i'm looking at the criminal complaint right now. i looked through it and you also list out, you know, what investigators found in several of these homes, including a water bong, pipes, cash, high times magazines. do you have any idea how much marijuana was sold -- you talk about five years here in the criminal complaint. how much money made? >> we're not sure on the financial transactions and the exact money figures. one of the defendants allegedly in this case, scott peterson,

admitted to selling approximately 15 pounds of marijuana over a five-year period. >> you said there was no indication the drugs were sold on school property. you said they were sold out of these different homes, correct? >> that's correct. >> and we understand lund is on leave from this school. do you have any idea how long he's been there, what his reputation has been around town until now? >> sure, mr. lund was born and raised here and has lived here other than going away for education pretty much his whole life. and he is well respected and is a well respected principal and coach in the school district for a considerable period of time. as far as how long he's been employed with the school district, i am not sure. >> you're the county sheriff. you say this guy has been here all his life. you know him. are you shocked? >> yes, we are very surprised as

this investigation unfolded and the names came to light of suspects in this investigation. it was both shocking and disappointing. >> sheriff greening, i appreciate you picking up the phone and joining us. please keep us posted. i also want to be clear, we did reach out for a statement from the suspects but have not gotten a response yet. what happens to athletes years after those hard hits? sanjay gupta is going to join me to talk about his new documentary. they're calling it "big hits, broken dreams." some people have never told a person, "you're fired," next. way to go, coach. ♪

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we're going to talk about that documentary with sanjay gupta, but first, apple. people wondered if apple would suffer without steve jobs. that's not the case, is it? >> no, not at all. it seems jobs left the company with a great plan in place. the stock trading at a record high of nearly $450 a share, up about 7% today. and apple made a whopping profit of $13 billion last quarter. there is only one time when a company made more than that, and that is exxonmobil in 2008, but oil prices were at a record

high. apple success has an ability to make us all think we need their products, and i'm this close to going and getting an ipad. >> yeah, i kind of love mine, so i would vouch for that. secondly, though, if you're buying a plane ticket, here are the heads up. there are new rules today. >> definitely. and this is all to benefit the consumer. as of tomorrow, airline ads must include all fees and taxes in the price of the ticket, not in the small print. the price advertised will be the actual price that you pay. there was a case where airtran was recently fined for advertising $59 one-way fares. that sounds great, but that's not what you actually end up paying. it didn't clearly show all the fees that would be tacked on except with a tiny asterisk at the bottom mentioning the fees and didn't tell you the actual complete price. so now fares must include fuel charges, that government fee, taxes, any other charges. and airlines must clearly lay out bag fees on your e-ticket. so it's a little more transparency on behalf of the airline for the consumer so you

know what you're paying when you actually buy the ticket. >> going into effect tomorrow. felicia taylor, thank you very much. and for months now, cnn has been investigating the danger of concussions in high school sports, and in his big new documentary called "big hits, broken dreams," our chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta talks to athletes both young and old about what their life slik after taking hit after hit. and he asks, would you do it over again? >> he is part of six nfl championships, including five under coach vince lombard i. he was called iron man for playing 186 games in a row, and he won a bust in the hall of fame. >> by the time you teach as coach to hit the other guy, he's going to hit you. so i want you to hit him as hard

as he hits you or harder. >> and greg believes it was those hard hits that have forced him to tackle a new opponent: park parkinson's disease. hi noticed this thi hair in the rng tremor in myefnd. >> greg is now undergoing color neurological institute. his neurologist, dr. rajeev rajeeve kamar believes his years of playing football may be to blame. >> it may be a risk factor for parkinson's disease. >> he thinks it's a combination of things. >> he's a man, he's older and he's been bumped in the head a lot. >> if you're going to play, you're going to get hit. that was my life. i played it for a lot of years and i coached it for a lot of years. it's what i did. >> new research says exercise could also help slow

parkinson's. >> i try to get in about five or six days a week. >> now when i newly diagnose a patient, i give them an exercise prescription. >> greg is now attacking his position the way he took on offensive linemen. nothing less than an all-out effort. >> the physical things, the workouts, that's what i can do, and that's what i'm doing to the best of my ability. >> he's also taking medication, working on his physical ability, balance, speech and doing cardio workouts. >> we started working on a few balance activities and also his posture. i was also having him multi-task activities, because people with parkinson's tend not to be able to do two or three things at once. >> and he's got the support of his family who is by his side. greg says he has no regrets. >> that's what i did for a

living, and i did it to the best of my ability. >> and he says if he had been more cautious, he probably wouldn't have kept his job playing football. >> and now we have dr. gupta in the studio. always a great day when you show up on the show. the big documentary last night, huge crowd in atlanta, so congratulations first and foremost. >> thank you. >> how strong, though, when we hear greg's story, how strong is the link between parkinson's and the head injuries? >> i think in the last couple years it's been much more of a strengthened link. there was a belief but it hadn't been proven. now you hear the doctor say the evidence is accumulating. last tuesday, a week ago, mohammad ali's 70th birthday. when he was 42 years old, so 28 years ago he wrote a letter about the onset of his tremor even at that time and talked about how he believed it was due to head injuries, the head blows he took as a boxer, and in the

last three decades, science has borne out what he thought to be true. those blows shut out the good brain barrier. if it's disrupted, toxins can get in there and possibly cause some of these problems, like parkinson's. >> but you don't have to have a concussion, do you not, to have serious issues, if you're taking hit after hit after hit. >> that's a good point. a high school football player will take 650 hits on average every season, 650 hits to the head. most of them are not concussive hits, they are what are called sub-concussive hits. >> but they add up. >> and people thought it was an isolated thing, it's cumulative. now we know in players as young as 17, and i saw this with my own eyes, 17 years old, they start to develop changes in their brain as a result of those hits that are similar to someone with alzheimer's disease in their 70s, 80s or 90s. those blows to the head, they have lasting damage, and now there's objective evidence of

this in those players whose brains have been examined. >> it was the premier that actually debuted last night. >> sunday night. >> you only come at these stories from a neurosurgeon perspective, and a great on-air guy. you're a dad. happy birthday to your five-year-old. let's show your five-year-old. you can't believe she's five. >> i can't believe she's five. i remember the day my wife told me she was pregnant with her. people told me, time flies by, and i'm like, come on, it seems like it takes forever. all of a sudden they're five and they look like that. >> did you go to her school? >> i d. and i did science experiments for the whole class. i don't know how much they understood or if they just enjoyed watching me be a mad scientist. thanks for putting that up. >> of course. and in case you're all watching,

it's "big hit, broken dreams" sunday night, 8:00 eastern on cnn. dr. gupta, thank you very much. it's got a lot of you talking here. demi moore rushed to the hospital a couple months after her breakup with ashton kutcher. we're going to speak live with people magazine about what happened, and we'll show you the before and after pictures of her dramatic recent weight loss. but first to this list. down in the economy or not? we have a list for you of the top five companies with no layoffs, ever. in fifth place, baptist healthsouth florida. third best company with no layoffs to date. st. jude's children's research hospital. number three, nugget market. who are the top two layocompani with no layoffs ever? that is after the break. hey. you haven't left yet. no. i'm boarding now... what's up?

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so who are the top two companies with no layoffs ever? these are no layoffs, these people didn't do anything wrong, and that's good because they haven't laid off at any one of these companies. coming in at number two, the container store, and the number one best company with no layoffs ever, wagnmans food market. when the store closed, they

offered to find all 250 people other jobs. because of the stress in her life right now, demi has chosen to seek professional assistance to treat her exhaustion and improve her overall health. she appreciates the support from her family and friends. we asked her rep about that, and this is a quote, no further info says her rep. we want to bring in carlos greer, reporter with "people" magazine. carlos, what do you know about what happened? >> hi, brooke. demi has had an extremely tough year. she's been partying this year and her marriage came to an end in november. unfortunately, she was hospitalized and she's now seeking professional treatment. >> this is something people have been talking about. we pulled a couple photos of demi, and let's pull it up, because on one side of the screen here, look at the left.

this is from sometime last year, the one on the right is last week. look at her legs. the weight loss is striking. >> it's extremely striking, and the thing is, friends actually told us she hasn't been eating. she's been under a lot of stress, she's been partying. just a couple weeks ago, she was out with her daughter rumer who is 23 years old, but in terms of her reports that she's been treated for substance abuse, she wasn't drinking; she was drinking red bull. she has been acting erratically, according to sources. >> we understand she was supposed to make a cameo in a movie, the movie about a porn star, the linda lovelace film. does she have any other projects coming up that could be affected by this? >> she actually did pull out of the project. she was supposed to play gloria steinem, and she's producing other projects as well. there's no word on what will

happen with the other projects, but she's definitely not going to be in the lovelace flick. >> i know ashton and demi, looks can be deceiving. we weren't on the other side of the relationship. appearances were they were a happy, loving couple but, alas, perhaps not. the timing of their breakup was pretty stunning to hollywood insiders as it was -- do you think it was a surprise to the general public. you said the two had been living pretty much a nightmare of a marriage. >> they had been living a nightmare. demi has had lots of insecurity and neediness. this led to her partying out of control. in vegas, i know everybody remembers the youtube clip when she was dancing with snoop dogg on stage, and again, two weeks ago she was out with rumer willis and dancing with ryan rodham from 90210.

she's been acting erratically. >> you point out that she's stressed and she's partying. to me those are two different things. which is it? >> well, it's both. but she's stressed and she's partying because she's stressed. the end of her marriage has taken its toll on her. >> carlos greer, people magazine, thanks so much. we're talking about what's trending here. >> thanks, brooke. and now, top of the hour. i'm brooke baldwin. here are the stories we're looking at. behind the scenes here of the u.s. hostage rescue in somalia. we're also at that college attended by that freed american. in addition, the tight republican presidential race in florida heating up. time to play reporter roulette. we're going to go straight to the state department to jill daugherty to lead this off. jill, tell us about the somalia raid. who led it off? >> the navy seals were prt